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From the early days of broadband, advocates for consumers and web-based companies worried that the cable and phone companies selling broadband connections had the power and incentive to favor affiliated websites over their rivals. That’s why there has been such a strong demand for rules that would prevent broadband providers from picking winners and losers online, preserving the freedom and innovation that have been the lifeblood of the internet.

Yet that demand has been almost impossible to fill—in part because of pushback from broadband providers, anti-regulatory conservatives and the courts. A federal appeals court weighed in again Tuesday, but instead of providing a badly needed resolution, it only prolonged the fight. At issue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was the latest take of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on net neutrality, adopted on a party-line vote in 2017. The Republican-penned order not only eliminated the strict net neutrality rules the FCC had adopted when it had a Democratic majority in 2015, but rejected the commission’s authority to require broadband providers to do much of anything. The order also declared that state and local governments couldn’t regulate broadband providers either.

The commission argued that other agencies would protect against anti-competitive behavior, such as a broadband-providing conglomerate like AT&T favoring its own video-streaming service at the expense of Netflix and Apple TV. Yet the FCC also ended the investigations of broadband providers that imposed data caps on their rivals’ streaming services but not their own.

On Tuesday, the appeals court unanimously upheld the 2017 order deregulating broadband providers, citing a Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that upheld a similarly deregulatory move. But Judge Patricia Millett rightly argued in a concurring opinion that “the result is unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service,” and said Congress or the Supreme Court could intervene to “avoid trapping Internet regulation in technological anachronism.”

In the meantime, the court threw out the FCC’s attempt to block all state rules on net neutrality, while preserving the commission’s power to preempt individual state laws that undermine its order. That means more battles like the one now going on between the Justice Department and California, which enacted a tough net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC’s abdication.

The endless legal battles and back-and-forth at the FCC cry out for Congress to act. It needs to give the commission explicit authority once and for all to bar broadband providers from meddling in the traffic on their network and to create clear rules protecting openness and innovation online.

【题目及解析】

36. There has long been concern that broadband providers would

A. bring web-based firms under control.

B. slow down the traffic on their network.

C. show partiality in treating clients.

D. intensify competition with their rivals.

【答案】C

【题型】细节题

【解析】根据题干关键信息“broadband providers would”可以定位至原文首段第二句，其中“picking winners and losers online 决定互联网行业的输赢”与选项C“show partiality in treating clients. 偏袒客户。”为同义转述。

37. Faced with the demand for net neutrality rules, the FCC

A. Sticks to an out-of-date order.

B. Takes an anti-regulatory stance.

C. Has issued a special resolution.

D. Has allowed the states to intervene.

【答案】B

【题型】细节题

【解析】本题难度较大，根据题干关键信息“FCC”可定位至原文第二段。其中第二段首句为主旨句“Yet that demand has been ...and the courts.”“然而，这一要求几乎不可能得到满足，部分原因是宽带提供商、反监管的保守派和法院的反对。”而后文中，供应商、保守派、法院皆有具体描述出现，作为对主旨句的事实论证，因此本题明考细节暗考例证。并根据排除法可知FCC既不是供应商也不是法院，因此答案B“采取反监管立场。”为正确选项。

38. What can be learned about AT&T from Paragraph 3?

A. It protects against unfair competition.

B. It engages in anti-competitive practices.

C. It is under the FCC’s investigation.

D. It is in pursuit of quality service.

【答案】B

【题型】细节题

【解析】根据题干关键信息“AT&T”可定位至第三段首句，并且出现在“such as 例如”列举词后作为论据出现，因此，答案应为上文的上义信息“anti-competitive behavior 反竞争行为”，答案B“It engages in anti-competitive practices. 从事反竞争行为。”为该内容的同义改写，因此正确。

39. Judge Patricia Millett argues that the appeals court’s decision

A. focuses on trivialities.

B. conveys an ambiguous message.

C. is at odds with its earlier rulings.

D. is out of touch with reality.

【答案】D

【题型】细节题

【解析】根据题干关键信息“Judge Patricia Millett”可定位至原文第四段第二句，其中“the result is unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service 其结果与现代宽带服务的现实脱节” 与选项D“is out of touch with reality.与现实脱节。”为同义改写，正确。注意本题的定位词“unhinge 使分开”为超纲词，但其词根hinge为大纲词汇，因此本题潜在考点为词根词缀，且“from”一词有“远离”之意，因此熟词僻易及动词词组搭配为本题的解题关键。

40. What does the author argue in the last paragraph?

A. Congress needs to take action to ensure net neutrality.

B. The FCC should be put under strict supervision.

C. Rules need to be set to diversify online services.

D. Broadband providers’ rights should be protected.

【答案】A

【题型】推理题

【解析】本题为推理题，考查最后一段主旨信息。通过扫读该段可知，